It was a nice day....a nice weather and nice outings...In the afternoon, the sky was blue, no clouds in sight, offering cool breezes that cooled down the temperature...It portrayed a typical 'good' weather in december, without the monsoon rain...

I met Ms Hon, my primary school teacher, and my bestest pal, accompanied by my brother (as they knew each other)...we had lunch at Plaza Singapura Pizza Hut..The service was bad...but food was alrite...We did not get to finish the Family Set Meal, as my brother was a 'small' eater..He, being my brother, and me being a NICE guy, i would not like to put the word 'anorexic' down...heehee...

We chatted alot...topics ranging from girlfriends to Eileen to Secondary School to Belinda (Hougang Sec de) to JCs to friends to NS...haha...very lively talk..And also bcoz' my brother was there, and he is still young, we did not plunge deep into relationship matters...Ultimately, it was nice meeting out and have a chat...

Then, Ms Hon left, she got to get a phone! Cheng Siong advised her to get one after 3G phone come up to amrket, then the prices of all other phones will drop...The 3 of us then went to watch 'Kung fu hustle' which i think it was a lousy lousy movie..DON't WATCH IT...



Then, Aaron accompanied my brother home and i went to Clarke Quay to meet Mr Koh for a dinner...Well, Aaron wasn't such a good guy to send my brother home, they took the same bus back. (shun lu...same way...hmm, just to clarify lah...don't want you all to have a good impression of my pal. =P )

I met Mr Koh, Herry and Afiq at Riverside Point, facing the Singapore River..I was late by 10minutes..( It was the movie that ended at 6.40 and i reached there at 7.10pm, hmm...just to clarify lah...don't want you all to have a bad impression of me. I'm a good guy. =P )Coming back, the weather as nice, crisp orangy clouds hung high up in the sun...The river was calm, and reflected the blueish of the sky and the orange-yellow of the clouds...We ate BBQ Indonesian food..$10 per head, i did not know why i did not pay...hmm, not that i did not pay, it was that he didn't want to accept my money...Then we stroll by the River, looking at couples and talking trash and seeing the sky turned dark...Lots of Chio Bus, but mostly attached...we crossed the Caveneigh Bridge, then strolled to 'Ultimate Bungee' area, where it made much of a commotion the past few months...Then down to a BumBoat jetty...

We, or maybe me, bargained for child tickets for all of us, including koh...at first he only allowed Herry Afiq and me to pay $6.30, child tickets which the age limits at 9yrs-old..then, we bargained more to get a child ticket for Mr Koh too..it was a VERY VERY big achievement...

And so, there we went down , for a 45minutes heritage tour in Singapore River..The boat went slowly from the so-called 'jetty' to Elton bridge to another bridge and another bridge and another bridge, before it reached the open sea...Then we could see the Merlion, the esplanade, suntec city and many more attractions...the stark differences between the calmness of the water in the sea to the bustling town filled with skyscrapers and buildings' lights...Cooling..refreshing...

Then i went to the boat hull (front) to sit..followed by Herry, but Afiq wouldn't dare..haha..so we sat on the front of the bumboat all the way to the 'jetty'..the feeling was just different..i remembered my first boat ride with my family and father's friends' family, my father would bring me to the front where i stood, letting waves splashing on me and feeling the wind at full blast..Then, almost all boat rides i would go to the front...The feeling was just wonderful...haha

Well, at first Koh said i wouldn't get to sit there, the boatman would not allow...luckily i asked...Or else i wouldn't get to enjoy a nice boat ride today...And i know when i have a girlfriend, clarke quay will come to my mind...a place filled with romance and national heritage and hints of a busy city...

Had our primary school gathering today...It was alrite, half the class turned up....Ms Hon paid for us..At least after so long, we meet again...nice nice...

Well, i decided to dedicate this post to my cousin...she spent her night in my house last night...She's my paternal side cousin, so we cant do anything for those who are as 'se' as me...

We sang songs till around 3am..i played the guitar and she sang...she had a nice voice...maybe it's in our genes...haha...joking, i had no talent in singing...but well, the main point was that, when a girl sings, only when her voice is good, you will feel very relaxed...

So moral of the story: one more citeria for my gf, she must have a good voice to sing for me...

There has recently been some exciting exchanges on nature-singapore and heritage singapore yahoogroups...Hmm, it is a discussion list which we could talk about anything about nature and heritage in singapore....There are lots of knowledgable people in the list who you could tap their resources to help you answer any questions regarding these topics...

One interesting discussion was "Did the name Serangoon come from the bird 'Burong Ranggong?"

This reply was from Maggie (to victor, the guy who asked the question), from heritage-singapore list...

"Hi Victor,
there is no small wading bird that fits this description - on the other hand the Seranggoon Estuary was pretty much Singapore's best location for wading birds until it was turned into a landfill site, and there would have been huge numbers of different species of small to medium wading birds there, especially during the northern winter migration period, in the past. I have always presumed that the name got mangled in some way. The various species of Plover are called Rapang nowadays in Malay, it might have come from that, although the sound is not quite close enough really.

Some popular heritage/history writers in the last ten years or so, have written that the bird was a stork (or rather they have written that it was a "stock"!!), which is a very large wading bird, and there are no storks with crests, although there are some with black backs. And storks are much rarer. The general word for stork is burong (bird) bangau. It might have come from that. But my impression is that the older writers say "small wading bird."

In the end it is not definite what bird it was, but it is very feasible that it was named after birds. But it might not be true.

What is definitely true is that the name of the River was there long before there were any roads in Singapore - probably for hundreds of years before there was the road built in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. So any explanation of the name must relate to the river. There is, for instance, an alternative story about the name of the road coming from people beating gongs along the road to get rid of tigers - but that story cannot be true because the road is much more recent than the river."

Another reply from Kevin Tan, from Heritage singapore

"Lesser Adjutant Stork (Leptoptilos javanicus)
Family: CICONIIDAE
A small, worldwide family of very large birds with long powerful beaks. They have long legs, broad wings, and short tails. They feed mostly on fish or small animals, which they catch while stalking quietly in open wet areas.

Storks are strong fliers and several species migrate over large distances. They are experts at soaring on thermals and often circle high in the sky, gaining height for easy travel, or searching for likely feeding places.

There are four resident species in the Greater Sundas and three doubtful vagrants.

Description: Huge (110cm) black and white stork with massive bill. Wings, back, and tail black; underparts and neck collar white; naked head, neck, and throat pink with some fine white downy feathers on crown. Distinguished from Greater Adjutant by smaller size, uniform wing, and lack of gular pouch. Iris-bluish grey; bill-grey; feet-dark brown.

Voice: Silent, apart from buzzing sound at nesting sites and audible wing-beats and bill clapping.

Range: India, S China, SE Asia, and Greater Sundas.

Distribution and status: Not uncommon in E Sumatra, particularly S Sumatra where groups of 40 or 50 are regularly reported. In Borneo this is a local and rather scarce bird though nesting is recently recorded in SC Kalimantan. In Java and Bali this once common bird is now rare in open lowland areas.

Habits: Frequents paddy fields, open burnt or flooded grassy areas, and mud banks and mangroves. Often seen soaring in thermals solitarily or in small parties with other storks, and even with eagles. Nests in colonies in well-wooded areas."

Best wishes
Kevin Tan
Singapore Heritage Society


See, Singapore history is interesting too...

Starting snifters
1. If you're finding government warnings about binge drinking rather depressing, what's the best excuse for a glass of something alcoholic?

a) You've got an infection and red wine helps to kill off the bugs

b) Alcohol stimulates newly discovered pleasure sensors in your feet

c) It's better for you than coffee



2. How do brewers in Bavaria intend to make brilliantly clear lager?

a) By genetically modifying gelatin to make better finings

b) By injecting the beer with a cyclonic jet of carbon dioxide, causing particles to settle. It's the vacuum cleaner principle

c) By using a filter with microscopic pores, a spin-off from an obsolete technology used to make digital compact cassettes



Defensive manoeuvres
3. With what did Nobel prizewinning physicist William Bragg try to combat German U-boats in the first world war?

a) Barrels of Eno's Fruit Salts, an antacid powder, which confused the subs by generating streams of bubbles when dumped overboard

b) Seagulls trained to - well this is difficult to put delicately - obscure the sights of the subs' periscopes

c) A team of circus sea lions, trained to pinpoint the subs in return for a handout of herring



4. What can companies use to stop hackers tapping into their employees' Wi-Fi connections?

a) Stealth wallpaper that comes with a coating of a signal-blocking plastic called kapton

b) A lead-lined room, known to workers as "the coffin", which can be set aside for Wi-Fi users

c) The jammers used by French cinemas to block mobile phone calls



This sporting life
5. Growth hormones are today's performance-enhancing drugs of choice. But what propelled William Hicks to glory in the 1904 Olympic marathon?

a) Strychnine and brandy
b) Caffeine
c) Serum extracted from monkey glands



6. Australian researchers are going for gold in the 2006 winter Olympic games in Turin. How do they expect to do it?

a) By training team members in Antarctica

b) By hoping for a repeat of last time's 1000 metres skating event, in which everyone but the Australian fell over

c) By identifying athletes with the perfect body for the sled sport, skeleton



Worldly warmers
7. What, according to the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, will cause a "major spike in CO2 emissions"?

a) January's inauguration ceremony for George W. Bush

b) Switching off analogue television in China in 2008

c) The sales boom in iPods


8. Sea levels have risen 13 centimetres in the past 2000 years, almost all of this in the past 100 years. How do we know this?

a) Satellite measurements of coastal erosion

b) Calculations of how fast glaciers have been melting

c) Excavations of ancient Roman fish farms



Animal magic
9. You know of course that Archaeopteryx was the first bird. It evolved from gliding creatures descended in turn from small dinosaurs. How many wings did the gliders have?

a) Two
b) Four
c) None


10. What is it that encourages female mosquitoes to suck up to you?

a) Fear: the mozzies can smell it from 25 metres away

b) Methylphenol, a chemical in sweat that smells of stables

c) Snoring


With their hydrodynamic bodies and intricate songs, whales are not like other mammals. So which land-living mammal is their closest relative?

a) Hippopotamus
b) Cow
c) Whistling marmot


How you scored
The scoring system works on the principle of snakes and ladders. You get 10 points for every right answer, you lose 10 points for every wrong answer.

If you've scored more than zero you can safely consider another glass of your favourite tipple

Answers:
1.a 2.c 3.c 4.a 5.a 6.c 7.b 8.c 9.b 10.b

Picture question - a

Alright, i volunteered to help out for the Scouts camp 2004 which was from 20-22 Dec...the past few days...

Okay, it was a futile effort, i'm constantly pissed at all moment...Jokers who you scolded them and they will give you a black face worst than Blangadash...Perhaps i'm exagerrating...i would love to go up to them and repeatedly scold them 'fuck you' accompanied by repeated slaps now and then...and of course they must not retaliate, or else i'm dead meat...
Leaders themselves don't give volunteers who forsake hours of complete enjoyment in gunbound a damn as they did not give the slightest respect to us...Perhaps we shouldn't be back, we, also known as bai chi volunteers, old men, ex-boys,and people-who-had-nothing-better-to-do-than-to-come-back-and-help-but created-more-trouble.

Perhaps the seniors in the school, the older chaps, at least knew the basic rights and wrongs...but they dare not provoke the younger ones who would give them a 'burnt blangadash face'...camp sux...

Well, so much about the camp, i got two cards from two friends...Mervy sent me a chrismas card with just a 'merry chrismas and a happy new year'. Hmm, i appreciate it lah..he's a nice nice chap...

Then the another post came from a friend who was afraid that i forgot her address that she wrote at the back of the envelope...She's known as a big suaner...girls i knew all are big suaners, don't know why...Her first sentence was 'wei, ni kan wo na me hao'...well, ni hao cai guai...but at least see card liao, my irritation and agitation from camp no more liao..(So people reading, must give card to me wor...)

So i must say THANK YOU, xie xie ni, to the two chaps who had nothing better to do than to send cards to me...

This year there's going to be a full moon to light up the nights around Christmas.

It's a special full moon, too: the smallest of 2004. Soaring high in the sky, it might remind you of a shiny white Christmas ball for your tree. Don't bother reaching for it... it's 406,700 km away!

Technically speaking, the moon isn't 100% full until Dec. 26th. But that's perfect timing for Christmas carolers and Santa. The practically-full moon on Dec. 24th and 25th rises early, lighting up streets and rooftops as soon as the sun goes down.

What makes this full moon small? Answer: The moon's lopsided orbit.

Although astronomers say the moon "circles" the Earth, it doesn't, not exactly. The moon's orbit is really an ellipse. One side of the ellipse is 356,400 km from Earth; this is called perigee. The other side of the ellipse is 406,700 km from Earth; this is called apogee. Apogee is 50,000 km farther from Earth than perigee.

When the moon is full and near apogee, we get an extra-small full moon. Such is the case this Christmas.

Even the smallest full moons are very bright. They outshine Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, by twenty-five thousand times. They cast shadows, and provide enough light to read by. Finding chimneys? It's easy!

If you get binoculars or a telescope for Christmas, take a look at the moon. It's absolutely beautiful--a world so close to Earth that you can see its craters and mountains and "seas" in exquisite detail. The moon is deserted now, but in the years ahead, according to the new Vision for Space Exploration, people will be walking around up there.

December 17, 2004: Every year in early December, something happens that can throw your horoscope out of whack. The sun enters Ophiuchus, the little-known 13th house of the zodiac.

You've probably heard of Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio and Sagittarius. The sun passes through these constellations, one by one, throughout the year. They're the ancient signs of the zodiac.

But Ophiuchus?

Modern astronomers don't divide the sky the same way ancient astronomers did. According to modern star maps, the sun cuts through a 13th constellation, Ophiuchus the Serpent Bearer, between Nov. 30th and Dec. 17th. Astrologically speaking, if you were born between those dates you're no longer a Sagittarian, you're an Ophiuchi! But that's another story....

This story is about what really happens when the sun enters the zodiac's 13th house: An interstellar wind hits our planet.

It's a helium-rich breeze from the stars, flowing into the solar system from the direction of Ophiuchus. The sun's gravity focuses the material into a cone and Earth passes through it during the first weeks of December. We're inside the cone now.



"There's no danger to anyone on Earth," says space physicist George Gloeckler of the University of Maryland. "The helium breeze is a thousand billion billion times (1021 times) less dense than Earth's atmosphere. It cannot penetrate to the surface of our planet."

Nevertheless, astronomers are keen to study it.

NASA's ACE (Advanced Composition Explorer) spacecraft, located at the first Lagrange point directly between Earth and the Sun, is perfectly situated to study this breeze. "When Earth moves through the focusing cone (the region of space where the sun's gravity focuses the breeze), so does ACE," explains Gloeckler, who is one of ACE's Lead Co-investigators. "We've been through the cone seven times--once a year since the spacecraft was launched in 1997."

ACE's mission is to study the solar wind, the hot breeze from our own star, so the spacecraft is well equipped to study the interstellar breeze, too. An instrument onboard ACE called SWICS detects helium ions in the breeze, measuring their density, temperature and direction of flow. Using these measurements, along with data from other spacecraft (chiefly SOHO and Ulysses), Gloeckler and colleagues have calculated the properties of the Local Interstellar Cloud.



It's a hot cloud, the gas temperature is 6000 C, about the same as the temperature of the sun's surface. It's also very wispy, only 0.264 atoms per cubic centimeter. The sun's magnetic field has little trouble deflecting this diaphanous material before it crosses the orbit of Pluto. Only a trickle (0.015 atoms per cubic centimeter) penetrates the inner solar system.

One day the solar system might run into something more massive. There are clouds in the galaxy thousands of times denser than the Local Interstellar Cloud. University of Chicago astronomer Priscilla Frisch has studied what might happen if we plowed into one of those. Writing in the magazine American Scientist she reports, "a cloud with 1,000 atoms per cubic centimeter could compress the sun's magnetic field to within a few AU of the sun. (1 AU or "one astronomical unit" is the distance between the sun and Earth). Planets such as Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto would be fully exposed to interstellar atoms and molecules. Interstellar gas would overwhelm the solar wind at 1 AU," transforming the space-environment of our planet.

The first signs of such a transformation could be the helium breeze thickening or shifting directions, heralding something new to come.

ACE has already detected changes. "We see strange gusts, ebbs and flows," says Gloeckler. "We doubt these variations are interstellar." Instead, the sun is probably responsible. The helium breeze must blow through the much denser solar wind, which can push the breeze around. Sunspots also affect the breeze. Ultraviolet radiation shining from sunspots ionizes the breeze and changes the way it appears to instruments like SWICS.

Left: ACE/SWICS measurements of the helium stream. Peaks denote annual passages through the focusing cone. Click on the image to see the complete 7-year data set.

"What we're doing now," explains Gloeckler, "is learning how solar activity affects the breeze. When we can reliably account for the sun, in detail, then we can use these measurements to diagnose interstellar space."

What's out there? What's coming? The answer lies in a breeze from the stars of the 13th house.

The breeze is a telltale sign of what lies outside the solar system. Interstellar space, the "void" between the stars, is not empty. It's filled with gigantic clouds of gas and dust. These clouds are the birthplace of stars and planets; they're also the debris left behind when stars explode. The solar system is running into one. Astronomers call it the Local Interstellar Cloud. The sun's magnetic field holds much of the cloud at bay, but some of the cloud's gas does penetrate--hence the breeze.

I had a fair bit of free time these days...SO i spent my time playing gunbound, doing work and reading books...Then came last night, i was sick of playing gunbound, so i decided to check my referrals from my beloved site meter....

And i found out that there was a guy who entered my name into the search engine...Well, it had been for months that particular guy is doing that...i knew coz' i remembered his IP...Ultimately, he was lame, and i was scared--scared that he found out something about me in the search engine, like my buloh guiding, ICCS, or maybe he might chanced on a webbie which an admirer wrote about me...
Nah, it's slim chance, but i don't like him fiddling into my life...But luckily, i did not have a girlfriend...it would be worst if he pester my girlfriend...

Never mind, a paragraph of trash. Then, browsing my referrals, there were jokers who typed interesting things into the search engine and entered into my webbie...

Okay, there is this guy, under GMT +6hrs, he stumbled into my webbie by typing "I WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE BUFFALOES" in caps...Then another chap wwrote "silly girls picture gallery", and how the hell he got into my webbie, when i did not have any Silly girls picture? And how the hell he know they are silly?

Then, a sadist wrote "description about a person's funeral"...most likely he was writing a compo entitled "My death"....Next, "I love her but I'm too shy and I don't know why", it matched to one of my post perfectly...

Three more cranky ones: "graphs on emancipated teens" and "WHAT IS THE BIGGEST VOLCANO IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM"..."Is it natural that a dog lick human ears and human teeth".....they got into my webbie....

I got to say that search engine rules...a webbie filled with personal thought turned into a pornographic, volcanic, adventures of buffaloes and pasted with pictures of silly girls...

You Are a Seeker Soul

You are on a quest for knowledge and life challenges. You love to be curious and ask a ton of questions. Since you know so much, you make for an interesting conversationalist. Mentally alert, you can outwit almost anyone (and have fun doing it!). Very introspective, you can be silently critical of others. And your quiet nature makes it difficult for people to get to know you. You see yourself as a philosopher, and you take everything philosophically. Your main talent is expressing and communicating ideas. Souls you are most compatible with: Hunter Soul and Visionary Soul

What Kind of Soul Are You?

Done shelves packing yesterday...and well, it happened annually...so as to get rid of used books and useless materials i kept for god-knows-what reasons...

And i had a wardrobe with 8 shelves and another cupboard with 6shelves...the wardrobe shleves i used to store my books and memorandums...while the cupboard i used to store books that i kept but no longer relevent to my academic studies...And of course my scouts trash...

Well, the shelves packing took place over a period of time,but i finished my last 4shelves yesterday, the most time consuming shleves. Well, these are the shleves i kept interesting things i bought or from gifts from people...i would spend time browsing through my primary school journal, which my Form Teacher forced the whole class to write, and 'zhou ji' which our chinese teacher in sec3 forced us to write...Then there are the beautifully decorated with artistic talented people who gave me stars, cranes, and notes for whatever occasions im celebrating...And i kept lots of stuffs...

The stuffs included swiss knifes to badges to gems found all over the world...and notes and notes...the most precious were the notes people gave me...well, in a way, it made u reminisce the time you spent with them and yes, those souvenirs i kept for whatever occasions i took part in...most sourvenirs were as good as new..packed nicely in boxes or lying around in the upermost shelves, refraining from curious people touching it...

holidays passed fast...class chalet was over and gone...it was sorta boing..haha...can't say much, i wasn't the organiser...well, at least they bother to organise it..

National Treasure is a very nice show, go catch it! The show was face-paced and intriguing...I don't really like Nick Cage (Ben, as known in the story), but his gf, diane krugar, she acted as abigail chase in the show was sexy and charming...well done...4 out of 5 stars...love her...

I watched it with bestest pal, lim zhe yu...we went Ang Mo Kio library to return Bleak House written by Dickens (i never touch it), tried to search for tian Long Ba Bu, but to no avail...then we visited Toa Payoh library, not even a Dickens book nor Tian Long Ba Bu...so in the end, i carried an empty bag all the while...

Coming back to the chalet...we wanted to take a picture of the class..so i saw this girl, wearing a singlet with her big name Candice on the back of her sexy shirt...so she agreed, she had two big round eyes, and perfect complexion and brought a mild smile on her quite-tanned face...her hair was long and shiny, one those who could be a model for head and shoulders! haha...so she took e picture for us, with a delicate fingers showing the signal of one, two ,three...
Blame it on the lack of courage, i wanted to get her phone number, we can be friends, you know...
Then, that night, it was late, i left the chalet...i caught a glimpse of her, she sat lavishly on the table, talking to her friend, she looked as sweet as Diane Kulgar under the silouette of the moonlight...then i heard her speaking, her voice sweet as ever....then she said "cb", i paused, unbelieving my ears, haha...perhaps it was the trees talking, or the floor, but on closer inspection, it was unmistakingly that it was her...ther sweet little amaible girl...a girl that protrayed a very nice first impression on me...and it was her...that left a bad final impression on me....i gave up, lucky that i did not ask for her number...............

Station nine: Sluice gate with sightings of crocodile... 

Don't know why, i'm feeling down again..exams over...yea, but why am i feeling this way? I doesn't feel it that way when was in the mangrove...why why??? My heart is heavy, i don't know why? Why? why? i should be enjoying...it's so contradicting,, why why? I desparately want to escape! but why?

Been a long time since i last blogged...like my music?

Today is Sungei Buloh Anniversary walk...i'm in station two, talking about the zonationin mangrove and particularly the Avicennia Marina / rhumphiana / lanata which has pencil like pneumatophores...

So the talk started with a drizzle, which somehow slowed down the guided talk. I had a partner, whom i hated very much...His future ambition is to be a Arsonist...He brought a lighter with him all the time, and he would fiddle with the sparks now and then..dammit man! I couldn't stand him, not only he had such a disgusting habit, he also spread malicious rumour about me to other guides...He said i like another guide named Shuyi, a RGS sec 2 Gifted Programme girl...anyway, he was somehow conspired by Koh...dammit, and anyway, koh was referring to another RGS girl, Yu Fang..So on the way home, my partner, nickolas, told Shuyi i loved her, and pestered me to give her my LAST WORDS...well, being cool, i remained nonchalant...Daphne , a laywer, Yen Ling, an NUS life sci grad, and Dennis, a Zoo performer, witnessed it...haha, of course, they don't join in the fun suaning me...they ain't lame...

Even with Much of these craps, i did enjoyed my day in Buloh...I guided more than an hundred people who turned up for the walk...they were participative...they answered all my questions! Gee...and they got it all correct...well, my questions were easy...

And there was this woman, perhaps another NUS grad, attended the talk with her bf i believed, they heard me explained some questions some aunties asked, and my explantion in either technical or scientific terms were wonderful....she said GOOD JOB...what a nice lady, she's chio...

In the midst of the talk, when our stations were empty, Daphne, Dennis, Nick and me chatted. We talked about relationship thingy...it was a meaningful talk, with Dennis wise quips on how to win a girl's heart...i actually thought of telling them how i chase a girl before, but i didn't have the chance to let tthem judge my skills, we started to pack and leave coz' they isn't any more groups coming...

Debrief was short and sweet...it was Siva's birthday tomorrow, which is also the birthday of the 11yr-old Sungei Buloh...haha...we off the lights, sang a birthday song, and ate cake...it was a pleasant surprise for Siva...fun fun! cake was nice...

Knew lots fo people from all walks of life, and haha....Fun, everything was fun, except for my partner...haha...but well, perhaps it's fate that binded all of us together...an enjoyable day indeed!